Improvement in machines for coating fabrics



L. L. ALLEN.

Machine for fio'atinglabrics. I N0 162 332, I Patented April20,1875.

THE GRAPHIC COJHOTO -LITH.39&41 PARK PLACE,N.Y.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

, LUTHER L. ALLEN, OF MONMOUTH, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO EASTERN MANU-FACTURING COMPANY, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR COATING FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,332, dated April20, 1875; applicaiicn filed July 30, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LUTHER L. ALLEN, ofMonmouth, in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, have invented anImprovement in Machines for Enameling Fabrics, of which the following isa specification This invention relates to the manufacture of enameledleather, cloth, or other fabrics or material, and in covering cloth, orother fabrics or material with water-proof and other substances orcompounds, and more particularly relates to machinery for automaticallyspreading and covering .the fabric with the enameling or other substanceor compound, and in which the cloth or other material to be coated isfed along and covered with an evenly-laid surface of the enameling orother desired substance or compound, substtntiall y as described inLetters Patent No.'130,968, issued September 3, 1872, to Charles E.Cummings, as assignee of myself. This invention consists in acombination with such or other equivalent covering and spreadingmachine, of cardclothed rolls at the delivery end of the machine, andsmooth rolls at the opposite end thereof, arranged to pass the coatedcloth or fabric in an elevated position, to be conveniently taken by thecarrier of the drying apparatus, so that as it is delivered by themachine it may be hung up in folds or loops, as in apparatus for dryingpaper-hangings.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1' represents a longitudinalvertical section, and Fig. 2 a rear-end view of a machine having myinvention applied.

A is the beam or roll, as in my former machine, hereinbefore referredto, on which the cloth or fabric S to be coated is wound, and from whichit is unwound or fed to be passed, as indicated by the arrow 00, underand over grooved bars B to smooth and evenly spread the cloth or othermaterial to its full width, both before and after its passage below thehopper 0, provided with steam chambers or tubes, and from which theenameling, waterproofing, or other substance or compound is depositedupon the cloth or other material,

and regulated in its delivery through an opening or throat in the bottomof said hopper by the action of a sliding gate, also passing underblades or scrapers l), which serve to distribute and incorporate theenameling or other mixture evenly upon the entire surface of the fabric.After the fabric S has passed these several stretching, coating, andspreading devices, it is passed around a card-clothed roll, G, at thedelivery end of the machine, and on a level with said devices orthereabout, and from whence it is returned below, as indicated by thearrow 00 to and around alower smooth roll, H, at the opposite end of themachine, and from thence up over another smooth roll, I, at the same endof the machine as the roll H, from whence it is run in an upward forwardcourse, as indicated by the arrow 00 to and over an upper card-clothedroll, K, at the delivery end of the machine; said last-mentioned rolland the lower card-clothed roll Gr being belted together to run at thesame speed.

By this combination of rolls the coated surface of the fabric passingover them is always kept from contact with the latter, and the uppercard-clothed roll K delivers the fabric Sin an elevated position to beconveniently taken by the carrier of the drying apparatus, which hangsit up in folds or loops, and which may be similar to the dryingapparatus used for drying paper-hangings.

I claim- The combination, with the feed-roll A, grooved bar B, hopper O,and scraper l) of a machine for coating fabrics, of the card-clothedreel for receiving the fabric from the coating devices, the lower andupper rolls H and I for receiving the fabric from the roll G, and thecard-clothed roll K, arranged above the roll G, for delivering thecoated fabric in an ele-. vated position to the carrier of a dryingapparatus, substantially as described, for the object specified.

LUTHER L. ALLEN.

Witnesses HENRY T. BROWN, FRED. HAYNES.

